The winning gene always accompanies, as the years go by, the joints ache, the battles accumulate.

Rudy Fernández, after an impressive career, on the way to 36 years continues to increase his legend.

And making millionaires to the teams he defends.

If exactly one year ago he raised a whole World Cup again, on Sunday at Santiago Martín de La Laguna he gave the umpteenth lesson to make Real Madrid champion of the Super Cup for the third consecutive year.

A theft of a manual in the abyss, a defense that should be taught in basketball schools, to complete Campazzo's work and ruin Mirotic's Barça again.

Accustomed to the classic run, to the accumulation of Madrid-Barça every season, here and there, Super Cup, Euroleague, ACB or Cup, an immense and infinite rivalry, this time there were nine months of desire, to see each other in the distance for the stumbling blocks of both and due to the circumstances of the pandemic.

And nothing less than with a title at stake, the first of the course, no matter how green both projects are, the 10.0 of Laso, the beginning of Jasikevicius.

Life, for now, remains the same.

Because in the very equal stake, with more failures than successes by both sides, white again had more temper.

And more personality, call yourself Campazzo (13 points in the last act), what lasts in Madrid before going to the NBA will be a treasure.

Mirotic, however, failed again in resolution, turned off in the moment of truth by Deck's aggressiveness.

Dawn turned out to be an extremely interesting tactical battle, movements of pieces, like a chess board, I challenge you and I annul you;

Deck being able to start Mirotic, Calathes versus Campazzo, that there cannot be two more base styles in the Antipodes ... Madrid sent first (18-12), more intensity, less success in the Catalans, who soon took flight , based on defense, intensity in the offensive rebound, Jasikevicius's fights and Mirotic's return to court, more comfortable with Garuba than with Deck as a dance partner.

"We fell asleep a little bit," acknowledged Campazzo.

"It takes a little blood to kill the game," Saras exaggerated.

But the game was on the edge (31-32 at halftime), too many errors, dissatisfied coaches, no hero at that point.

The fireworks were around the locker room.

When Barça sharpened the fang, as if it were demarrara at the foot of the port, with Mirotic scoring with ease while Madrid crashed against his defense.

Abrines was then the best ally of the Hispano-Montenegrin, but the whites endured the ups and downs, despite their lack of success, drawing on courage and experience.

And from a reinforcement that seems to have been wearing that shirt for years, the philosophy learned in just a few classes: Abalde was the one who pulled Laso's car.

The sensations had been Barça, but Madrid was sent at the end of the third act with a Thompkins basket.

He was going to have to row again, because, again, as if they needed Jasikevicius's harangues, Barça came out with full throttle, with a threatening 0-7 led by Mirotic.

That soon had a response, another 7-0 back, with Deck again on the rival star, and the game raising his heart rate.

And there the dominance of Campazzo emerged, only ruined by the failures in the free throws.

A basket from the Argentine seemed definitive.

Laso opted for a short defense, without Tavares, with Abalde over Davies.

Hanga played it in the penetration to tie and Rudy, fast hands like a gunman, unleashed a blow that was a masterpiece.

That of the seventh white Super Cup, the one that makes one forget the Final Phase of June, the one that puts the stamp on the 20th title of the Laso era, the one that frustrates Barça again, now with Jasikevicius in command.

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